At SurkshaNow Partners, we help cloud service providers accelerate internal control validation. Powered by Precision Assurance CPA LLC (an actively licensed U.S. CPA Firm), we provide end-to-end SOC 1 (SSAE 18) audits—assessing and officially signing off on your internal controls over financial reporting to protect your enterprise clients and win high-stakes financial contracts.
SurkshaNow Partners brings deep financial controls expertise and direct, in-house AICPA signing authority to every engagement.
We eliminate the middleman. Your audit is managed, verified, and officially signed off directly by our registered corporate accounting entity, Precision Assurance CPA LLC.
Our compliance architects possess extensive experience evaluating complex financial SaaS platforms, payroll architectures, and outsourced clearinghouses across multiple geographies.
We look beyond traditional spreadsheets. We specialize in cross-mapping internal financial controls seamlessly with modern cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP) and automated infrastructure layers.
Because our readiness consulting architects and official CPA signing auditors operate under a single, unified workflow, you avoid the heavy markups and communication gaps of outsourced audit networks.
We deliver a meticulously designed report that satisfies corporate stakeholders, vendor procurement teams, and external user auditors without friction.
Our specialized auditing methodology mirrors the rigor and quality expected from leading global accounting firms, running at the exact speed of your engineering operations.
We identify the systems, processing layers, and infrastructure services that impact your clients' Internal Control over Financial Reporting (ICFR). We clearly define the boundaries of your business units, application lines, and primary control objectives.
We analyze the core design and deployment of your operational protocols against AICPA SOC 1 standards, identifying procedural gaps, potential accounting risks, and data integrity vulnerabilities.
We perform a comprehensive pre-audit mock evaluation. This includes a clear gap analysis to isolate missing evidence logs before the official audit window opens, alongside targeted remediation mapping to resolve issues rapidly.
Our licensed CPA auditing team performs deep-dive evidence reviews to confirm design and operating effectiveness. This includes executing process walkthroughs, reviewing access control logs, and testing sample transactions for total accuracy and completeness.
We compile your final, authoritative report (Type I or Type II) matching exact AICPA guidelines. We affix our official firm signature, giving you a validated asset to instantly pass enterprise procurement filters.
Select the precise reporting framework that matches your current corporate growth goals:
Evaluates the fairness of your system description and the specific design and implementation of your financial reporting controls at a single specific point in time. This is the ideal starting point to establish immediate baseline trust.
Provides a much higher level of assurance by evaluating the operational effectiveness of those exact controls over a sustained evaluation window (minimum of 3 months, with a standard 6 to 12-month period recommended).
Demonstrate your absolute organizational commitment to data security, availability, and confidentiality across our core AICPA audit framework.
Build a robust, globally recognized Information Security Management System (ISMS) to cement baseline technical protection.
Leverage your existing internal control evidence to satisfy strict federal cloud security requirements.
A SOC 1 report is designed specifically for service organizations whose operations directly impact their clients' internal control over financial reporting (ICFR). It is heavily utilized by your clients' independent financial auditors to confirm that data flows, transaction processing, and calculations are accurate and untampered with.
Any cloud service provider or outsourced vendor that handles financial information, billing data, or transactions needs a SOC 1. This includes payroll processors, payment gateway engines, automated clearinghouses, fintech platforms, asset management systems, and outsourced loan or accounting managers.
While both are AICPA standards, they target entirely different corporate perimeters. SOC 1 focuses strictly on internal controls over financial reporting (ICFR). SOC 2 focuses on operational security, availability, confidentiality, processing integrity, and privacy of data, unrelated to core financial accounting metrics.
A readiness assessment serves as a strategic safety net. It allows our compliance team to identify missing documentation, layout flaws, or weak tracking configurations while your system is still in a pre-audit state—preventing costly exceptions or modified opinions on your final, official report.
Yes, but through a financial filter. A SOC 1 audit evaluates Information Technology General Controls (ITGCs)—including logical user access, change management control, and data center backups—specifically because a security breach in these areas could directly compromise the integrity of the underlying financial processing data.
No. Under strict AICPA regulations, only a fully registered, independent Certified Public Accountant (CPA) or a licensed CPA firm can legally execute and sign a formal SOC 1 or SOC 2 attestation report. Non-CPA firms can only offer preparation consulting. SurkshaNow executes and signs audits directly via our registered entity, Precision Assurance CPA LLC.
The primary drivers are your clients' Chief Financial Officers (CFOs), enterprise procurement managers, risk compliance officers, and external financial auditors who need independent validation before routing transactions through your cloud architecture.
Scoping encompasses all infrastructure and workflows touching financial calculations. This includes database engines containing transaction tables, user access management layers, continuous deployment code pipelines (change control), server logging mechanisms, and calculation algorithms.
Typical evidence requests include written corporate policies, database modification change tickets, administrative user access lists, system patch logs, automated backup verification sheets, and sample end-of-month financial reconciliation reports.
To avoid coverage gaps that enterprise clients will reject, a SOC 1 report must be renewed once every calendar year. Because a Type II report validates historical operational effectiveness over a continuous window, keeping your annual audit cycle consistent is essential to sustain absolute market trust.